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COPIES BATTALION 8 Days Until Review Number 278: Volumve 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 19'57 Price Five Cents ‘Moonwatcliers’ To join First National Alert A&M’s “Operation Moon- watch,” the name given to the Earth Satellite Visual Track ing Program, will meet Fri day night at 7 in the lobby of the Physics Building- to track ’ a meteor, a new satellite of the earth, a coast to coast flying plane or all three. This alert is on a nation-wide basis, and moonwatch stations all over the country will train their telescopes skyward in the first na tion-wide visual tracking program. Operation Moonwatch’s objec tives are to plot and track the Van guard Satellite, which will be launched some time in the future. Scheduled to be completed within two years, the data obtained from • observing the artificial satellite will be used to determine the forces effecting the earth and the pos sibility of survival in outer space. Information obtained by the local station will be forwarded to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Obser vatory, where all the data is cal- lecte dand evaluated. Armed Forces To Parade Saturday v * The Texas Aggie Band will lead a parade of several schools and military units in downtown Bryan Saturday morning at 10:30 in «honor of Armed Forces Day. Along with the parade, Bryan AFB is planning an open house of all military units in the area, starting at 1 p.m. Displays on the base will include several static displays of the aircraft stationed there in addition to movies, fire fighting demonstrations, helicopter demonstrations and ejection seat practice. Fly-overs by various type air craft throughout the day is also scheduled. Bryan and College Sta tion will have flights of F-lOO’s, “ F9F’s, C123’s and T-33’s over their city throughout Saturday after noon. $1,300 Raised For Stricken Senior Funds collected by tbe welfare committee of the Student Senate for Vic Zuckero, Simonton senior, who was stricken with spinal men- igitis, now total over $1,300. According to Dr. John E. Marsh Jr., Zuckero’s condition is improv ing . but he is still “a long way from recovery.” Now is con- \ scious and able to eat solid foods. Hospital expenses exceed $100 a day and the Senate, in an effort to aid tbe stricken senior, recently * set up barrels and buckets in var ious places around tbe campus ,for student donations. Originally, they set $600 as their goal. Zuckero was injured in an in tramural softball May 8 and was rushed to St. Joseph Hospital in Bryan where be has been since that time. BIG MOMENT in the life of an Aggie is to step into the huge ring with his girl during the annual Ring Dance to have her turn the ring around signifying graduation. Ring Dance Set For Saturday Nite By RONALD EASLEY Four years of hard work and per- serverence will be climaxed for the cla§s of. 1957 with the annual Senior Ring Dance Saturday night at 8 in Sbisa Hall. Highlight of thq senior’s big evening will be the annual picture in one of the two gold ring replicas with his date. This ring tradition, was started 17 years ago by the class of 1940; they felt that this valued symbol of . an A g g 1 e’s achievements and hopes should be included in the dance program. To begin the evening’s activities there will be a banquet in Duncan Hall at 6. Program for the banquet will begin, with-the introduction of honored guests by Senior Class President Douglas DeCluitt. Max Stansbury, Industrial Manager of the Continental Oil Company will speak on “The Man Most Likely.” Seniors and their dates will dance to the music of Jan Garber and his orchestra. Garber’s orchestra has played for audiences in such well known places as the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago and the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans and is one of the nation’s leading orchestras. An “Old South” theme will be featured in the decorations at Sbisa. The walkway up to the Parent Day Events Scheduled for TV “Tex^s in Review” will present A&M’s Parents Day activities dur ing the week of May 20. “Texas in Review” is an Hum ble Oil Company’s television pro gram which is presented over 24 television stations. entrance will be lined with candles; the entrance itself will be prepared as if it was the entrance to an old colonial mansion. Another highlight of the dance will be the presentation of the six top “Vanity Fair” beauties, chosen from the twelve finalists in the contest. “This will be the largest ring dance in the history of A&M,” said general chairman Durward Thomp son. There have been 1,200 tickets sold for the affair. Other committee chairmen be sides Thompson include Jack T. Steel, program chairman; Don W. Green, guest chairman; Joe David Ross, banquet chairman; Jon F. Cobb, decoration chairman; Billy B. Carter, ring ceremony chairman. On the ticket committee are James L. Hudson and James Starr. Seniors and their dates are urged to be on time for the pictures at their assigned time and ring, says Thompson. Lions Hear Chorus At Weekly Meeting Lions Club members met Monday for their regular weekly meet ing in the Memorial Student Cen ter Assembly Room with President Leland Grumbles presiding. Presenting the program at the meeting the Consolidated High School Chorus under the direction of Robert Boone. The chorus sang several numbers and closed their program with the finale from the Night of Music show they are giv ing tonight at the CHS Audi torium. Garrison Will Present $500 Safety Award to Battalion Col. Homer Garrison, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, will present The Battalion a check for $500 for winning first place in the College Newspaper Contest on Public Safety at the Student Publications Awards Ban quet tonight. The Battalion has won cash awards totaling $1,300 in the past five years. It has won first place twice, third three times and a second place in 1950. This year colleges from 28 states submitted 278 entries in the daily publication contest which The Bat talion entered. Jim Bower, editor of The Bat talion for the past year, will serve as master of ceremonies for to night’s banquet, which is held an nually to honor student publica tions workers. The evening dinner consists of a Smorgasbord which begins at 7 with Bower taking over the reins after the dinner for the presenta tion of awards and entertainment. Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, chairman of the Students Publications Board, will give the opening address. Commission Oaths Slated For Army All army cadets that will be commissioned are requested to meet in the Biological Sciences Lecture Room at 4 p.m. Friday May 24 to take their oath of of fice, according to Capt. M. G. Staf ford. Editors of the student publica tions will be pi’esented watches and they will in turn introduce the new editors. Don Burt, Aggieland ’57 Editor, will introduce the 12 Vanity Fair beauties and the selection com mittee will choose six to be repre sented in the Aggieland ’57 with full pages. The remaining six will be placed on two pages in the yearbook. Bower will announce The Bat talion awards and Kenneth Pierce and Delmar Cassidy, co-editors of the Southwestern Veterinarian, will announce their awards. Sam Houston State Teachers College students will provide enter tainment for the banquet, featuring song, dance and musical acts. joeffler Given Vote Of Trust, Will Stay Senate Passes Bill To Double College Tuition AUSTIN, (IP) — In an al most unprecedented move yesterday, the Senate strip ped its calendar to get to a bill doubling tuition in state supported colleges and universi ties and finally passed it, 15-13. The vote came about three hours after Sen. Jarrad Seerest of Tem ple, the bill’s sponsor, said it was “extremely unlikely” that the bill would pass. About 914 million dollars will be collected from the bill by in creasing tuition from $25 to $50 a semester for resident students. The money will go to pay salaries and create new positions in state supported four year schools. Part of the funds also will be used for a scholarship fund for needy stu dents. One amendment specifically sta ted that the 9% million dollars would go for increasing the col lege teachers pay and establishing the scholarship fund. The fund would be used for students who could not afford the $50 and show ed they were capable of doing col lege work. Army Offers 200 Graduates Career Plan Faculty members and grad uate students in colleges and universities, with or without prior military service, have an opportunity to become Regu lar Army career specialists in the Army’s technical services, accord ing to an announcement by Lt. Gen. John H. Collier, commanding’ general, 4th Army. The new “Project 200” calls for 200 qualified specialists to be com missioned and given assignments in research and development in critical fields. No military background is need ed, but appointees must be able to meet 20 years of service by their 55th birthday. Applicants must either hold a doctor’s degree, a master’s degree with three year’s experience, or a bachelor’s degree with five year’s experience. Immediate career opportunities are open in fields of physics, en gineering, mathematics, biology and other technical fields. These opportunities are also open to active and inactive re*Serve officers and individuals employed both in industry and government. Drum Maj ors For Next Year Picked Reagon George, junior architec ture major from Dallas, was chos en yesterday to lead the Texas Ag gie Band next year. Also selected from a field of 11 applicants at the annual tryouts were Raymond Roycroft, of Goliad, and C. T. (Skipper) Kirksey, lead the Maroon and White Bands, re spectively. Applicants were graded on their ability to lead the band, both marching and playing, by a repre sentative from each class in the band, the three drum majors for this year, Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, Band Director, and outgoing drum majors. Williams Forbids Coach to Recruit By JIM CARRELL Ken Loeffler, A&.M basketball coach, was given a sur prising vote of confidence by the administration when he was retained in his position by President D. W. Williams. Williams handed down the decision yesterday at 4 p.m. after the ca:se of recruiting violations brought by the South west Conference was passed on to him. The conference met last Saturday. The action taken, an implied reprimand, included the statement that “hereafter Coach Loeffler’s duties will be con fined to coaching of the varsity basketball team and will not involve recruiting.” Loeffler said the backing he got from the president and the student body in the re-'* pruiting charges brought * • WJ* Aggie Wives Take 2nd Polio Shot Saturday The second in the current series of three Salk polio shots has been scheduled for Aggie wives and their child ren in the home of Mrs. Dor is Purser, Aggie Wives Club presi dent, Saturday afternoon from 1 to 3. Mrs. Purser lives in B-2-C, College View. As usual, $1 will be charged for each shot to defray the cost of the vaccine and postage. Any addi tional funds collected from Sat urday’s vaccination will be dona ted to the local chapter of the Na tional Foundation of Infantile Paralysis. It is not necessary to be a mem ber of any health plan or to have paid the A&M Hospital to secure the shot, said Mrs. Purser. “All the girls have to do is bring the dollar and their children.” The first shot in the series was given a month ago. After the sec ond shot Saturday, a person may receive the third within six months. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Thui’sday temperatures ranged from 91 maximum to 71 minimum. At mid-moi’ning today the read ing was 81. against him by the SWC was “the most heartwarming thing I’ve ever known.” “The students were wonderful and I appreciate everything that everyone has done for me. Wednes day night a group of students came over to my house and told how they were behind me and back ing me in this thing. I’m pretty old, 54, but this renews my faith in youth, which I had been told was pretty cold and sophisticated.” A release from the President’s office states the college “will con tinue to honor its contract which runs to March 31, 1958 with basket ball coach Ken Loeffler unless additional evidence is submitted to substantiate the charge of hav ing furnished a round trip airplane ticket. . . to a basketball player at Christmas, 1955, which Coach Loeffler flatly denies.” The decision has been made and the “hot potato” which the SWC pitched in the lap of A&M’s Presi dent Williams has now been tossed to the NCAA for action in its meet ing on May 31 in Chicago. However, indications are that the SWC still reserves the right to handle the case as it sees fit. Howard Grubbs, executive secre tary of the SWC declined comment on action of the president but said the conference could take action in the case and could levy a penalty and that because the case had been passed on to Williams did not mean it was washing its hands of the matter. The conference has postponed further action until the next meet ing and according to Grubbs there has been no call as yet for a special meeting and unless there was one the conference would take no action until the winter meeting. Williams declared two of the charges to be of a technical nature and that Loeffler had admitted his guilt. The charges came when he was first hired by the school and at a time when he was not familiar with conference regulations. A third charge of lavish enter tainment in the “Jackie Moreland case” required no further action, according to the president, since Loeffler had already been re primanded by the conference in December. The charge which remains, and (See LOEFFLER, Page 2) Vets Asked to Fill Out May Forms All Korean veterans are urged to report to the Veterans Advisors Office to complete May pay forms before leaving the campus. Sum mer school students may complete enrollment forms. Veterans wish ing to attend another school should fill out a request for change form, said Bennie Zinn, head of Student Affairs. Decisions On Atomic Arms Race Expected WASHINGTON, (^—Har old Stassen returns to Wash ington today for consulta tions that are expected to bring important new decisions on U. S. policy for negotiations to end the atomic arms race. One question likely to be de cided in the next 10 days is the location and extent of a test area for the “open skies” inspection plan to which the United States might be willing to agree. Secretary of State Dulles sug gested at a news conference Tues day that such a zone might more easily be carved out in tbe Arctic regions of Alaska, Noi’tbern Can ada and Siberia than in populous Eastern Europe with all of its complicated political problems. Stassen’s consultations with Dul les, President Eisenhower and others, it is understood, will be pointed toward decisions by the National Security Council next week on specific positions which Stassen may take when he’ returns to London. Disarmament negotia tions in the United Nations sub- committe there May 27. The sub-committee recessed its talks yesterday after two months of meetings. In that time, Dulles said, about 15 specific proposals were introduced. Nagle Hall Opens 3 Floors in June Nagle Hall, which is being com pletely remodeled on the inside, is scheduled to open the top three floors for classes in time for the first summer session. The basement, which will house the entire journalism department, will be open in time for the fall semester. Housed in the old Civil Engineer ing Building along with the jour nalism department wil be the his tory, economics, and geography departments, and the offices of the Dean of the Graduate School. New features in the building in clude new desks, air conditioning in the main lecture room, the dark rooms and the offices and exten sive interior remodeling. A representative from the Amer ican Seating Company, which man ufactured the new one armed desks being used, will be on the campus the 20th of May to install them. June 6 to Mark Vet Med Parley W. W. Armistead, Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, will give the welcome address at the tenth annual Texas Conference for Veterinarians to be held here June 6-7. Outstanding authorities from throughout the country are sched uled to take an active part in the conference. It is expected to draw about 250 veterinarians for the two day period. Zollie C. Steakley, Texas secre tary of state, will deliver an ad dress at the conference banquet at 6:45 p.m., June 6. Dr. R. D. Turk is chainnan of the committee for the conference. The Texas Veterinary Medical Association meets in business ses sion at 3:45 p.m., June 6. PUTTING THE FINISHING touches on the Journalism Department soon to be located on the ground floor of Na gle Hall is Tom Shaumfield, shown installing a fluorescent light. Watching with interest are (left to right) Warren R. Simmons and John Jefferson.